Copy paste option

That is a great idea. I don't have time to do it personally, but I'd love to see a patch. Perhaps there could be an #ajax form similar to the rebuild button where it would take a csv-type of string and rebuild the tablefield widget with those values.

Hello, I would be interested as well.... unfortunatly my users are likely to have no idea on what a csv file is, but they may be able to do a copy/paste ;-)

Had an instance where the ability to paste the table data would make for a better experience for my client, so I threw together a quick patch to allow it. The column separator defaults to the TAB character (since this is what data copied from a spreadsheet will have) but can be changed to any other character.

In hindsight, maybe this functionality should be a separate module and use a hook_form_alter...

I really like this feature, it's something my editors will appreciate. I've taken a stab at re-working the patch. There's a little general cleanup in here, but the only significant change is that I removed the "Other" textfield for the delimiter option, since I'd guess the main use-cases here are for tab and comma.

I've been using this patch in production and I found a few gotchas with the table not being resized correctly after paste. Ive got a fixed up version and will supply a new patch shortly. Marking as NW for now.

This one pastes data and resizes the tablefield appropriately.

Thanks so much @lunazoid! this feature will be in the next release of tablefield :)

hello

I'm interested in this functionnality on Drupal 8 version of tablefield, is there any planning on it ?
is somebody working on it ?

it's too complex to make it myself :(

thank you

Hi,

We needed this to work with D8 so I made the following changes in tablefield based on patch #7.
It would be nice if someone could revie this patch because it works for what I tried to achieve but I am not sure it is every use case proof.

Thanks

Patch fails to apply. Try creating it with git diff.

martin@martin-XPS-13-9370 /var/www/html/brown.localhost/web/modules/tablefield (8.x-2.x=) $ git apply -v tablefield-copy-paste-d8.patch
error: unrecognized input

Also at https://dispatcher.drupalci.org/job/drupal8_contrib_patches/19694/console:

23:16:40 Applying patch /var/lib/drupalci/workspace/jenkins-drupal8_contrib_patches-19694/ancillary/tablefield-copy-paste-d8.patch to /var/lib/drupalci/workspace/jenkins-drupal8_contrib_patches-19694/source/modules/contrib/tablefield
23:16:40 fatal: unrecognized input
23:16:40 Patch Error
23:16:40 The patch attempt returned an error.  Error code: 128
23:16:40 Patch Failed to Apply
23:16:40 fatal: unrecognized input

the test I added was an error, it worked, i don't know how to remove it

davidiio created it with git diff

Updated patch mostly just fixes the diff so it applies cleanly, but also adjust some minor coding standards.

i am working in this issue.

#17 applies cleanly to 2.4 and works great.

While manual entry would work for very small bits of info, and having the file uploads is great for more complex use cases, in ours we need to add in data produced by another program - copy and pasting is a lot simpler than generating a file and then attaching it. I'd recommend this get patched in. :)

Fix formatting in patch on permissions.yml to match earlier code cleanup so it applies to dev, applied to fork.

Tests give the following new errors:

Drupal.Commenting.FunctionComment.ParamMissingDefinition at /builds/project/tablefield/web/modules/custom/tablefield/src/Element/Tablefield.php (485:3)
Drupal.Commenting.FunctionComment.ParamNameNoMatch at /builds/project/tablefield/web/modules/custom/tablefield/src/Element/Tablefield.php (488:6)

Params were copy-pasted from elsewhere in the document before.

Should this be cherry-picked onto branch 3.0.x?

It's new functionality, but it's just an extra option on top of existing ones (and is very useful). It should be in both branches.